Might as well introduce myself, before posting on the forums proper (and any of this looks familiar to you, well..cut 'n paste is wonderful isn't it?).
Hajimemashita! My name is Yuuenchi. I is a gen-uine Appalachain-American (Hillbilly is so un-PC) originally from the not-so great stateof WV. I like reading manga (obviously), I like collecting it. I wish more would be licensed, I wish I could read what is not translated, which is why I'm learnng Japanese (I have 28 vols of grammar and Kanji reference books -for that matter I am looking for a book titled "Introduction to Newspaper Japanese, so if anyone knows where I can find it, please let me know-) I can recognize roughly 330 Kanji, and am working on the rest.
Let's see, I collect original manga, English translations (where possibly I buy the original J-version) I figure I have around 1000 manga (the joys of having access to a real Japanese bookstore, and Japanese bookstores selling used manga here in Atlanta) English and Japanese. Most of it is Shoujo, and less tha .1% is Hentai of any form.
I also collect Anime CDs (soundtracks, drama-cds); the occasional figure; and as many Light Novels as I can identify, they make good practice material. (on the other hand, I also have Japanese translations of Hamlet, "The Golden Compass", and am working on acquiring Harry Potter, but at $60 a pop for 2v hardback, it takes a while to work up the courage)
Some of my favorite doujin artists are: Hayashibara hikari, onikubo hirohsia, and Yamagata.
I also like the visual novel/dating game/gal-game culture. (I have a few games, including Kanon and Clannad for the PC, along with what Hirameki came out with while they were still around, and a few from JAST and related companies, thanks to JList). Hmm..in fact, along with original manga, the games are the reason I began to learn Japanese, so I could read what won't make it over here.
I figure at some point I'll learn how to edit, and how to use a scan and upload, since I have so much original manga, so I can contribute to producing scans. Its something that I want to do, but have no experience in.
You know you've read too much manga and seen too much anime, when you start to write your own stories (again, the vast majority of my projects to date are shoujo/school romantic comedy/drama) for no other reason other than you want to see how the story comes out. I blame KGNE for that, I always Haruka to win over Takayuki in the end (Next Season notwithstanding), so I started writing two stories using the name Haruka..and I took off from there. They started as potential fanfiction projects, but I quickly realized that they had KGNE, so they became original works. So now, I have 15 stories running around in my head and on my HD labeled as either "Dear My Shoujo" or "Shonen Write!" stories or Teen Heart Manga Storeis. Now, ask me how many stories I've actually finished, and you'll receive a different answer. (Well, one is in pre-reading stage "Under the Red Umbrella" a school-age/hatsukoi story about a boy and girl who from an early age have walked to/from school everyday together under a red umbrella because of a skin-condition that she has. One day she tells him her mother has arranged for her to be married after school. Enter requisite soul-searching, what do I do now teen-agnst appropo of anime/manga heros and heroines.) Most stories are multi-chapter/mutli-part such as "Chocolate Confessions" (a boy whose family runs a confectionary shop and his burgeoning romance with his classmate) and "I'm in Love with the School Ghost" (where the hero meets the school ghost during a hidemoshi, and ends up falling in love with her. Oh, and then she finds and accidentally swallows the Philosophe's Stone, which is where things really get interesting). Now, of course, once I finish it, there's the question of who would want to read this type material, and wha outlets exist. I know about webcomics, but is there a similir anime-influenced webfiction niche out there that I don't know about?
I'm quasi-active on a few other boards and forums (ok, so I'm a lurker on most of the boards, but I'm trying)
Non-Anime/Manga related
I like Celtic Music, Bluegrass (I own a banjo, but am not very good at it) other soundtracks, New Age music (it makes for good writing aids), I am half-heartedly learning Spanish, Latin, German, Philosphy, Theology, Biolgy, Chemistry, and Church History. I'm also working on a writing project that places a remnant of the Christian Church into a fantasy settig with magic, elves, dwarves, dragons, and seeing what happens, called the Church of Petergate, so-called because the central feature in this world is a gigantic Roman style Triumphant Arch, which connects the Island of the Christians to the mainland continents of this new world.
And now that I've talked your ears off, I'll depart for now
Hajimemashita! My name is Yuuenchi. I is a gen-uine Appalachain-American (Hillbilly is so un-PC) originally from the not-so great stateof WV. I like reading manga (obviously), I like collecting it. I wish more would be licensed, I wish I could read what is not translated, which is why I'm learnng Japanese (I have 28 vols of grammar and Kanji reference books -for that matter I am looking for a book titled "Introduction to Newspaper Japanese, so if anyone knows where I can find it, please let me know-) I can recognize roughly 330 Kanji, and am working on the rest.
Let's see, I collect original manga, English translations (where possibly I buy the original J-version) I figure I have around 1000 manga (the joys of having access to a real Japanese bookstore, and Japanese bookstores selling used manga here in Atlanta) English and Japanese. Most of it is Shoujo, and less tha .1% is Hentai of any form.
I also collect Anime CDs (soundtracks, drama-cds); the occasional figure; and as many Light Novels as I can identify, they make good practice material. (on the other hand, I also have Japanese translations of Hamlet, "The Golden Compass", and am working on acquiring Harry Potter, but at $60 a pop for 2v hardback, it takes a while to work up the courage)
Some of my favorite doujin artists are: Hayashibara hikari, onikubo hirohsia, and Yamagata.
I also like the visual novel/dating game/gal-game culture. (I have a few games, including Kanon and Clannad for the PC, along with what Hirameki came out with while they were still around, and a few from JAST and related companies, thanks to JList). Hmm..in fact, along with original manga, the games are the reason I began to learn Japanese, so I could read what won't make it over here.
I figure at some point I'll learn how to edit, and how to use a scan and upload, since I have so much original manga, so I can contribute to producing scans. Its something that I want to do, but have no experience in.
You know you've read too much manga and seen too much anime, when you start to write your own stories (again, the vast majority of my projects to date are shoujo/school romantic comedy/drama) for no other reason other than you want to see how the story comes out. I blame KGNE for that, I always Haruka to win over Takayuki in the end (Next Season notwithstanding), so I started writing two stories using the name Haruka..and I took off from there. They started as potential fanfiction projects, but I quickly realized that they had KGNE, so they became original works. So now, I have 15 stories running around in my head and on my HD labeled as either "Dear My Shoujo" or "Shonen Write!" stories or Teen Heart Manga Storeis. Now, ask me how many stories I've actually finished, and you'll receive a different answer. (Well, one is in pre-reading stage "Under the Red Umbrella" a school-age/hatsukoi story about a boy and girl who from an early age have walked to/from school everyday together under a red umbrella because of a skin-condition that she has. One day she tells him her mother has arranged for her to be married after school. Enter requisite soul-searching, what do I do now teen-agnst appropo of anime/manga heros and heroines.) Most stories are multi-chapter/mutli-part such as "Chocolate Confessions" (a boy whose family runs a confectionary shop and his burgeoning romance with his classmate) and "I'm in Love with the School Ghost" (where the hero meets the school ghost during a hidemoshi, and ends up falling in love with her. Oh, and then she finds and accidentally swallows the Philosophe's Stone, which is where things really get interesting). Now, of course, once I finish it, there's the question of who would want to read this type material, and wha outlets exist. I know about webcomics, but is there a similir anime-influenced webfiction niche out there that I don't know about?
I'm quasi-active on a few other boards and forums (ok, so I'm a lurker on most of the boards, but I'm trying)
Non-Anime/Manga related
I like Celtic Music, Bluegrass (I own a banjo, but am not very good at it) other soundtracks, New Age music (it makes for good writing aids), I am half-heartedly learning Spanish, Latin, German, Philosphy, Theology, Biolgy, Chemistry, and Church History. I'm also working on a writing project that places a remnant of the Christian Church into a fantasy settig with magic, elves, dwarves, dragons, and seeing what happens, called the Church of Petergate, so-called because the central feature in this world is a gigantic Roman style Triumphant Arch, which connects the Island of the Christians to the mainland continents of this new world.
And now that I've talked your ears off, I'll depart for now
